Born and raised in the Jamaican capital, Kingston, during the 1960s, Henriques always had a penchant for “creepy crawlies,” such as spiders, scorpions and snakes. But it was crocodiles that ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Trap Door Spider of Jamaica ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 39 No. 24 (December 1878), p. 375 doi:10.1038 ...